Before Leia had gotten to sleep in the night, she made a wish upon a star, and then she had closed her eyes and fell to sleep in her own bedroom at the castle in winterland.
But now it was morning, and she woke up to a bird singing in her room.
She opened her eyes and smiled warmly at it,
«Good morning friend.»her eyes widened, «Oh no! Something’s wrong! Because all my words are coming out as song!» she looked arround her, at her belongings, «A rythm stirs, deep inside my soul. I’m saying things in ways I can’t controll.» and she quickly covered her mouth with her hands.
She heard someone vocalizing through the hall, nearing her room, and then the door swung open,
«What’s going on? Someone cast a spell or curse?» it was her twinbrother Luke, and he was also singing, «‘Cause what I say, is coming out in verse.» Leia just could’t belive herself of what she heard or saw as her brother went on, «My voice just soars, had no idea it could. Now I’m singing out, and how do I sound good!»
Leia made it out of her bed, as her brother sang her more questions,
«What could be the reason?»
«I think I know my bro.»making it to the window, «It’s all because the wish I made upon the star above.» pointing, before she turned her gaze at him, «With music in our hearts, we’ll defeat the evil Queen.»
«How?» Luke asked simply, thinking of Ventress in the underground palace.
Leia continued singing,
«‘Cause our bond expressed through song, is a weapon like the queen has never seen!»
Luke looked at her with amazement. Just then, the royal servants came in, beginnig to do their duties.
Luke and Leia didn’t seem to pay them much attention.
The brother took his sister’s hand, leading her towards the door. They began singing in unison,
«There’s a powerful magic when we unite…»
…
But Leia’s wish upon the star hadn’t just affected her and her brother, it had affected the whole kingdom of Hasar-Adar, so everyone kept bursting out in song from now and then.
In the forest of spring and autumn, in the academy of the autumn side, Captain Youthful was singing too.
Down in the cafeteria, he stood tall on one of the tables, going:
«Yo-Ho! Keep your jewels divine! Yo-Ho! You are wasting your time!» he kicked down a bottle of rum with his left foot, and another one with his right, «With the croc in my hand, I’m gonna tear out his spine!» before he jumped of the table, landing on the floor with great ease, «Revenge, revenge, revenge! It’s gonna be mine!»
But not far away from him, the fairy Zilla sat beside another table, looking through her spellbook once again,
«It has to be something here!» she said desperately to herself, «It has to!» and then she shouted to the pirates, «Would you mind keeping it down over there? I’m trying to concentrate!»
Captain Youthful put a smile on his face and walked over to her,
«And why so glum, love? Don’t you wanna see me skin my croccodile?»
Zilla looked up at him with a frown,
«I don’t know what’s going on in that head of yours, your fancy-looking scum! But I am not your love! So you better keep thy tongue!»
«Woah!» Youthful let out, his hands in the air, «No need to get so defensive, lassie. This is just how we pirates talk. We call everyone for love. It means friend and mate.»
«Okay…» Zilla just say, fixing her gaze at her book again, but Youthful took it from her, «Hey!»
«Look. I want a warrior on our team, to help us slay that croccodile, so what’d you say? You in?»
Zilla thought for a moment,
«But I have my own problems to deal with. I’m going to have my revenge on Skywalker for pushing me away and choosing my sister over me.»
«We can help you with that.» he said with a glimpse of an smile, «If you help us, we help you. Sounds good?»
Zilla sighed,
«I should know better than to trust a pirate, but if it can get me my revenge, then I’m in.»
«Then we have a deal!» Captain Youthful smirked. Shaking hands with her before turning to his pirate-crew again, «One last drink mates! Then we’ll have a chat with destiny!» and then he continued on his song once again, «Singing Yo-ho, I’ll slaughter the swine! Yo-ho must be fates designe! For even more precious than rum in a stein, is revenge, revenge, revenge and its gonna be mine!»
…
Later that day, Zilla flyed through the corridor, flapping her wings.
Also she, had a song to sing about her revenge:
«I will fly into tomorow. Oh, Skyguy full of sorrow.» passing door after door of classrooms, when she came to the refrenge, «I’ll bring him some magic thing that’ll help to bring him down.» the pirates tight on her heel, «And when I stand victorious, Ahsoka then will see: He should have chosen me.» she stopped her flying, going down to the floor, walking through a door. The pirates didn’t follow her in here, but instead continued down the hallway.
Zilla looked around herself, confused when she saw school-children sitting at their desks. Looking up at her with wonder as she came inside. Then she looked at the teacher who stood in front at the blackboard, and gasped: It was Ahsoka.
«Oh… what am I doing here?» Zilla mumbled to herself.
«Well you are one wicked fairy, aren’t you?» Ahsoka began, «I heard your song in the hallway. You gonna take out my Master? Why?»
Zilla took some steps back,
«I’m sorry… but I really must do this…» she ran out, hearing Ahsoka shout after her,
«Zilla!»
Ahsoka sighed, wanting to go after her, but she simply couldn’t leave the children alone, so she had to stay untill her day was over.
She turned her gaze towards the window, seeing one wicked fairy flying past, and sighed even more.
«Once I lived in darkness, out there on my own…» she sang as thoughts came to here about when she had been on the run. From the one she had now returned to, because his heart were pure.
…
Anakin was in his office, as he got a call from Ahsoka who told him about Zillas wickedness and how she had become a fairy.
And when he hung up the phone, he stood up from his desk, walking out on the floor,
«Oh fairy of light!» he began, «I call upon thee! Show your self!» he looked around when nothing happened, «I said: Show yourself! Abigail!»
Then a great light flustered in the middle of the room, before Abigail appeared in the size of a human,
«Your wish is my command, o king.» she said humbly as she curtesied, «What do thy want?»
«What I want to know is, what have happened to Zilla? What did you do to her?»
Abigail just stared at him,
«That’s some poor choice of words, my dear. What you should better ask, is what you did, to make her like this in the first place.»
Anakin stared at her shocked,
«What are you talking about?»
The fairy walked slowly to the open window were Zilla was about to make her entrance,
«Deep down, you already know. Farewell, wise one.» and then she was gone, just as fast as she had appeared.
Just then, Zilla came flying through the window, carrying a gift with her,
«Skyguy!» she smiled, trying to look innocent, «Wanna have fun?»
«Not today, my apprentice. What do you have for me?»
Zilla smiled one of her wicked smiles
«It’s a fun gift! Open it.»
«Okay.»
But before she could hand the wrapped box over to him, she felt a bang to the backhead, and everything went black before her eyes.
Anakin watched strangely on when she fell to the floor, unconscious. His gaze wandered towards a hooded figure behind her, that was holding a rock.
The figure let the hood down revealing their identity. Anakin tilted his head,
«Padme?»
«It was a trap!» she said, «But I saved you.»
Anakin put up a little smile,
«Oh, the things you do to get me alone.»
«Stop talking.»
…
As Luke and Leia ran into the palace of the evil Queen, which name was Ventress, they came to an halt, looking around for her, as they wanted to defeat her with their song.
«Where is she?» Leia paced, «We have to find her so that we can do this before our parents come home and find that we’re gone!»
And then they heard a voice coming from behind,
«I’m right here, silly children.» and as they turned they saw the Queen walking towards them with a fire-ball in her hand, which she was ready to throw at them at any moment, «What is that thy want?»
Luke and Leia just grinned big,
«There’s a powerful magic when two voices soar.» walking towards her, driving her into a corner, «I’m ever more hopeful for what lies in store.»
«Stop! Please!» Ventress began, trying to cover her ears, but Luke and Leia went on with their song,
«Nothing will stop us, no not anymore! Watch the wish you made come true!»
«No!»
«That is the love and its powerful magic can do!»
Ventress had sunken down on the floor, bracing herself for impact, as the kids surrounded her triumphantely.
But suddenly, she looked up at them with fire in her eyes,
«Fine!» she stated, «But I can sing too!» slowly rising up, «And my song is even more powerful!»
«No it isn’t.» the children teased her, «We have defeated you. The victory is ours. We won.»
Ventress narrowed her eyes at them,
«Wrong.» she said coldly before taking a deep breath, beginning with a rock «Down with hope down with dreams, don’t need blind faith to cope, or inspiring songs in my heart.»
Luke and Leia shared a shocked glance at each other when they realiced that they weren’t the only one that could use a song as a weapon.
And as the Queen continued, they also began again, and it went into an duet.
But as the queen was nearing the end of her song,
«Got the magic I need for my darkest of deeds…»
Luke and Leia just felt that they could sing forever and ever, but then, as Ventress got into her last verse:
«Let’s see how strong you are, when everything is spoken.» she then opened up a magic box that sucked their song, right out from their heart. And then she closed it. Smiling victorious at them.
When the children tried to sing again, it only became a shout,
«ITS A POWERFULL MAGIC…» and then they gasped. Leia’s eyes were filled with tears, «You took our song from us…» she said in a heartbreak.
«Yes.» Ventress grinned, «And not only yours, but everyones, in the whole kingdom.»
«Our joy… our hope…» Luke sniffed, «Gone…»
«Yeah… and so would you be, now out of my palace.» and she puffed them away through her magic cloud of purple smoke, so they appeared back at their own castle.
And once again in Leias bedroom, they stood, looking out of the window with saddened expressions on their faces.
It wasen’t soon that princess Leia slowly sank down at the floor, as tears streamed down her face,
«I can’t believe she took our song from us! I thought we could defeat her with it.»
Luke nodded as he looked towards the moon of the night,
«Yeah. It was a very powerful one. I can’t believe it’s gone.»
And as they sat down in their sorrow, the fairy Abigail came flying through the window,
«The song.» she began, «Everyone’s songs: It’s not truly gone, it’s still inside you somewhere. It was always there.» she sat down in the frame of the window as she began explaing how she had used her magic to just spice things up a little bit,
«And therefore, it happened that everyone kept bursting out in song whitout controll.»
Leia looked upon her,
«So you where the one who granted my wish?»
Abigail nodded,
«Yes, my child. But it wasn’t intended to use against Ventress.»
…
Ahsoka was slowly packing up for the day as the last kid left the classroom.
«I feel strange…» she mumbled to herself, «As if some magic has been swept away…»
She saw Anakin and Padme coming through the door, walking hand in hand,
«Wanna join us to the castle?» Anakin went.
Ahsoka nodded slowly,
«Yeah…» but she couldn’t quite shake the feeling of something strange in the air. Something in the atmosphere. And it wasen’t just that the magic that had filled peoples heart earlier this day was gone now, that she felt this way.
She felt something else, despite of magic being gone, something was coming. Something dark.
«Something is coming, Master.» she nearly wispered, «I can feel it.»
Anakin just gave her a weird look,
«What do you mean?»
Ahsoka looked around herself, confused,
«Where’s… where’s Zilla?»